News from the GlassFish Community

Tuesday Sep 25, 2012

Bill Shannon and I will be hosting a meet-the-specleads BOF at JavaOne. This is a chance for you to meet many of the engineers who are leading the expert groups driving the technologies under the Java EE umbrella, ask questions, and give us feedback on open issues and future directions.

The BOF is scheduled to be held October 2 @ 5:30 in Parc 55 room Cyril Magnin II/III.

If you are an Oracle customer, you are probably familiar with Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework). If you are not, ADF is, in a nutshell, a Java EE based framework that simplifies the development of enterprise applications. It is the development framework that was used, among other things, to build Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle has just released ADF Essentials, a free to develop and deploy version of Oracle ADF's core technologies. As a good news never come alone, GlassFish 3.1.2 is now a certified container for ADF Essentials!

Oracle ADF Business Components – a declaratively-configured layer that simplifies developing business services against relational databases by providing reusable components that implement common design patterns.

ADF is a highly declarative framework, it has always had a very good tooling support. Visual development for Oracle ADF Essentials is provided in Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.2.3. Eclispe support is planned for a later OEPE (Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse) release.

Here are some relevant links to quickly learn how to use ADF Essentials on GlassFish: